Nushagak Bay
![Packrafts in Nushagak Bay](/Images/godic/202501/30/BristolBay21432.jpg")
![Salting station of C.E. Whitney and Co., loading barkentine Willie R. Hume, Nushagak Bay, 1900](/Images/godic/202501/30/Whitney_salting_station_1900_NOAA1432.jpg")
Nushagak Bay is a large estuary covering over 100 km in southwest part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It opens to Bristol Bay, a large body of water in the eastern Bering Sea north of the Alaska Peninsula.
It is home to the area's largest city, Dillingham, and the bay hosts one of the world's last great sustainable sockeye salmon fisheries.